You should have finished the first draft of your critical investigation. Thanks to everyone who has handed it in on time as requested. You will get feedback which will help you improve on it.
You should now be working hard on your actual production pieces.
We will soon be going on to investigating digital media (MEST 3 Section B). This is the topic you cover alongside Representation. Here are some sample exam questions to get you thinking. Page 2 of the resource contains the mark scheme.
To prepare for this, you should start researching aspects of digital media. Here are some ideas - choose a couple which interest you and see if you can come up with any more.
- the Simon Cowell X Factor vs Rage against the Machine campaign
- UGC (snow chaos pictures, Iran anti-government protests)
- developments in mobile phone technology - the 'apps' explosion
- 3D cinema
- developments in Internet TV
- developments in computer games
- music downloading
- charging for online newspaper content
